The WORST episodes of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
Every episode of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman!
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman was a show that focused on Dr. Mike, a woman doctor in a time when that was unheard of. It started with her journey to Colorado Springs to be the town's physician after her father's death in 1868. The show focused around the town that she loved, treated and it also focused on the three children, Matthew (Chad Allen), Colleen (Erika Flores, later Jessica Bowman) and Brian Cooper (Shawn Toovey), whom she had to raise after their mother died from a rattle snake bite. In the later years, the show focused on Dr. Mike and Sully (Joe Lando) who got married and had a daughter towards the end of the shows successful run.
#1 - The Most Fatal Disease
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/1/1997
Kid Cole and Sister Ruth visit Dr. Mike at a difficult time in their marriage.
#2 - Birdman
Season 6 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/18/1998
Michaela worries about Brian's friendship with an eccentric man who thinks he is a bird.
#3 - Baby Outlaws
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/25/1995
A teenage Belle Star robs the saloon with the Younger brothers and is shot. Dr. Mike takes her home in an effort to show her a real home life, attempting to turn her from her life of crime.
#4 - Money Trouble
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/1994
When money becomes short for Sully, he tries everything to make ends meet rather than accept help from Dr. Mike.
#5 - A Washington Affair (2)
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/5/1994
Arriving in Washington, Dr. Mike and Sully find it difficult to find anyone to listen to their concerns. Sully is arrested for army desertion while a plot against the president is overheard. Michaela must break Sully out of jail to expose the conspiracy.
#6 - To Have and to Hold
Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/2/1998
While away with Sully, Michaela falls and hits her head. She suffers a concussion. The pain of losing her baby is finally discussed and resolved with Sully.
#7 - Malpractice
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1996
Dr. Mike is charged with malpractice and must stop treating patients during the lawsuit, leaving medical matters to the young and reluctant Dr. Cook.
#8 - Season of Miracles
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/21/1996
As Christmas approaches, Brian questions his faith when he learns that Dr. Mike cannot save the sight of the Reverend.
#9 - Ready or Not
Season 3 - Episode 27 - Aired 5/13/1995
Dr. Mike and Sully go to Reverend Johnson for a honest discussion regarding their upcoming marriage. After originally agreeing they have no conflicts, the couple begin reliving their past difficulties since they first met.
#10 - Halloween III
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1995
Elderly Abner Foley comes to town looking for alternative treatment and a very friendly dog adopts Jake Slicker. The rest of the town looks forward to the costume party but first Brian must face a very big fear.
#11 - Happily Ever After
Season 6 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/11/1998
Hank captures Cloud Dancing and gets the army to send him to a reservation far away. Jake and Teresa marry, despite her aunt's disapproval.
#12 - Starting Over
Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/3/1997
After Marjorie joins the Women's movement she blows into town stirring everyone up and has a fling with Loren.
#13 - The Body Electric
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/5/1997
Brian takes a liking to visiting writer Walt Whitman, even when the townspeople shun Whitman over rumors of his alternative lifestyle.
#14 - The Dam
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/11/1997
In a case of mistaken motivation, a judge sends Sully to prison after he is spotted with criminals bent on stopping the construction of a dam.
#15 - Legend
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/16/1996
Dr. Mike, Sully and Matthew team up with a legendary marshal in order to nab the thieves who wounded Matthew during a bank robbery.
#16 - The Expedition (2)
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1995
Dr. Mike injures herself after the other women have turned back on their quest to climb Pike's Peak. Sully steps in for his wife on the council to thwart Jake and Preston's casino plans. Grace, Myra, and Dorothy change their minds and head back up the mountain.
#17 - What is Love?
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/11/1995
The town puts on a production of "Romeo and Juliet". Brian tries to learn what love is so he can write a paper for school.
#18 - Before the Dawn
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/10/1997
Horace attempts suicide after his wife, Myra, leaves him, prompting Dr. Mike to send for her and their young daughter.
#19 - Life in the Balance
Season 6 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/4/1998
Chinese immigrants set up camp. Dr. Quinn discovers a young woman posing as a man in order to practice medicine, which is forbidden in her culture. Her Grandfather is stunned, but supportive.
#20 - Seven Kinds of Lonely
Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/21/1998
Dr. Mike tries to prevent Loren from leaving Colorado Springs when she learns he secretly plans to sell his store and move away out of grief over the death of Marjorie. Meanwhile, the town prepares for its annual "Sweethearts Dance," but melancholy seems to reign. Jake broods over how to ask Teresa to marry him, and Grace's continued drinking threatens her marriage to Robert E.
#21 - Separate But Equal
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/7/1996
Grace and Robert E. encounter fierce opposition when they attempt to enroll their son in the town's all-white school.
#22 - Dorothy's Book
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1995
Dorothy gets her book about the town published, but the townsfolk read her depiction of them differently than she intended.
#23 - Vengeance
Season 6 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/25/1998
U.S. Marshall Elias Burch asks Matthew, still a student of law, to defend him when he's accused of murder.
#24 - Pike's Peace
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/28/1995
Sam Lindsay, an older independent woman, decides to end her medical treatment and take off into the wilderness. Dr. Quinn accompanies her and learns from the journey. Myra Bing goes into labor and Colleen finds what she is capable of.
#25 - Farewell Appearance
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/25/1997
Dr. Mike's Uncle Theodore, a concert pianist, sees in Brian not only a talented musician, but his own dead son.